When you start your prayer

"If our first thought is ourselves and not of God, we are not praying as Jesus taught." Teachings of Howard W. Hunter.

Sometimes in a need I have, I start my prayers thinking about myself and the needs I have. How do you start your prayers?

Today is part of eternity

"Too often we think about eternity as something that is a long way off. Eternity is today and for a long time. Eternity was this morning, eternity is this afternoon. Eternity will be tonight and tomorrow and the days that follow and the years that make their course. We are on that road today, and shouldn't those moments be filled with sweetness in planning, in loving, and all the things that make life beautiful?"

I read this today in "The Teachings of Howard W. Hunter." I really liked this thought. Eternity starts now, not tomorrow. What are you doing now, to make your eternity beautiful? What is your attitude like? How are you loving your neighbor? How are you serving your God?